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A search for lepton flavor violation in the neutral kaon system

Hoff, Christopher Henry
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The conservation of separate lepton number is an ad hoc conservation principle in the Standard Model but several non-Standard Model theories allow violation of separate lepton number conservation. A very sensitive search for lepton flavor violation in the neutral kaon system, via the decay K0L→me , was undertaken by Brookhaven National Laboratory Experiment 871 (E871) during the 1995 and 1996 AGS HEP running periods. No K0L→me decays were observed and a single event sensitivity (SES) of 1.97x10-12 was achieved. This single event sensitivity corresponds to an upper limit on the branching fraction of BK0L→m e<4.53+/-0.21+/-0.46x 10-12 at a 90% confidence level.
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1998
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Welsh, Robert E
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https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-bd5q-yt15
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https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/6029
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